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NO-shunznounColloquial

A Hiberno-English slang term. Browse all Irish slang.

What it means

  1. Pretensions above your station — ordering the wine, mentioning your holiday, using a word nobody asked for. Accusing someone of notions is Ireland's standard weapon against self-promotion.

In use

  • Scented candles in the downstairs loo. Notions.

  • He's got notions since he moved to Dublin.

Where it comes from

Shortened from 'notions above your station', a nineteenth-century class rebuke. The bare noun became a national in-joke in the 2010s through social media, where it now functions as a one-word verdict.